Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA

Winter Wonderland Cave contains perennial ice associated with two types of cryogenic cave carbonate (CCC) formed during the freezing of water. CCC(fine) is characterized by relatively high δ(13)C values, whereas CCC(coarse) exhibits notably low δ(18)O values indicating precipitation under (semi)clos...

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Main Authors: Munroe, Jeffrey, Kimble, Kristin, Spötl, Christoph, Marks, Gabriela Serrato, McGee, David, Herron, David
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7979826 2023-05-15T16:37:03+02:00 Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA Munroe, Jeffrey Kimble, Kristin Spötl, Christoph Marks, Gabriela Serrato McGee, David Herron, David 2021-03-19 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7979826/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33742010 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85658-9 en eng Nature Publishing Group UK http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7979826/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33742010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85658-9 © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. CC-BY Sci Rep Article Text 2021 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85658-9 2021-03-28T01:35:37Z Winter Wonderland Cave contains perennial ice associated with two types of cryogenic cave carbonate (CCC) formed during the freezing of water. CCC(fine) is characterized by relatively high δ(13)C values, whereas CCC(coarse) exhibits notably low δ(18)O values indicating precipitation under (semi)closed-system conditions in a pool of residual water beneath an ice lid. Previous work has concluded that CCC(coarse) forms during permafrost thaw, making the presence of this precipitate a valuable indicator of past cryospheric change. Available geochronologic evidence indicates that CCC formation in this cave is a Late Holocene or contemporary process, and field observations suggest that the cave thermal regime recently changed in a manner that permits the ingress of liquid water. This is the first documented occurence of CCC(coarse) in the Western Hemisphere and one of only a few locations where these minerals have been found in association with ice. Winter Wonderland Cave is a natural laboratory for studying CCC genesis. Text Ice permafrost PubMed Central (PMC) Scientific Reports 11 1
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